I am not sure that I can describe all that God did on Sunday! The first session of the conference (Saturday) was so powerful that I was afraid the next two sessions on Sunday might be a letdown by comparison. They were not! In fact, God continued to outdo Himself each session.
I don't have the time to do a thorough write-up, but God's presence and power permeated all parts of the day. Tim, Deborah, Joshua and I met to pray before service. We spent about 40 minutes in intercession, and then we started to pray for each other. We started to pray for Tim first--he is doing the interpretation for the conference, which is very tiring. He felt tired before we started, still a bit worn out from yesterday's session. So we began to pray for him first. The Holy Spirit came tangibly on him--it was not a power thing, it was a sweet intimacy thing, and it was very tangible. Tim is a an apostle and a mighty warrior for the kingdom. He is very open and yielded to the Lord and has moved in God's power many times. But he had never had what I call the renewal experience (from Toronto and Mozambique) where you feel surrounded by God's sweet presence and feel saturated and secure in the Father's love, knowing you are accepted in the beloved. God choose to meet him in that way. The overflow from what God was doing on Tim was so powerful that it took me out as well.
My room has two twin beds in it. Tim was standing in front of one of the beds and when the Spirit hit him, he got slain in the spirit and ended up laying on the bed. His wife and son were kneeling by the bed, holding his hand and placing their hands on his shoulder. I got hit with the overflow of what God was doing and I ended up going down as well...somehow God in His kindness caused me to end up on the other bed even thought I was not in front of it when the overflow first hit me.
When the first wave of God's presence was up, I encouraged Tim to stay down for another wave. That concept was a bit new to him. But when God came on him again, it was even more tangible, an ever sweeter presence of the Lord. God showed Tim a vision of an angel doing surgery on him... taking out his heart and replacing it with the heart of Jesus. Tim is always praying to have more of God's heart of love and compassion for others, so that vision especially blessed him and ministered to him. God also came with a third wave. By the time God was done with Tim, he felt completely refreshed and also hungry. It was already 1:00 PM, and Tim had to be in the conference room by 1:30 to oversee setup and final arrangements. (I did not have to be there until 2:00, when the session started.)
They were concerned that no one had prayed for me. But I assured them that I did not need prayer--God had touched me very strongly while He was ministering to Tim. I am not sure if I simply got the overflow of what God was doing with Tim, or if God was saving time and being efficient and explicitly ministering to me at the same time He did Tim. It did not matter which it was, I felt so ministered to and so full of the Spirit.
The first session went really well. God was really gracious to anoint my teaching and make it both entertaining and informative. Almost half of the session was activations, where they sought word for each other. That is where the power and anointing was really evident on the conference. People were hearing God and getting words for each other. Judging from the reactions of the people, some of the words were quite powerful. The whole room was "a buzz" with excitement and enthusiasm in doing the activations. We had more people on the second day than we had on the first day, well over 500. And it seemed that almost all of them were hearing God and prophesying to each other.
Let me give you an example of the type of words God was releasing. When we did the "seeing" activation, one lady had been struggling with bitterness and unforgiveness for some time. She had recently chosen to forgive and for the last two weeks God had been empowering her to walk it out. She got a partner that she had never met before. The partner's word for her was: I see the Chinese character for "bitterness." But God passed His and over it and it began to change. When it had finished changing, it was the Chinese character for "Smile." The lady was so blessed by her word.
Here is another example. Paul is the man who mostly takes care of me in Hong Kong--picking me up at the airport, driving me around, getting me munchies for my hotel room, etc. He had told me about a shoulder problem he was having and how he had spent about 2000 Honk Kong Dollars above and beyond his medical insurance trying to get it taken care of, but it was still very sore. I had prayed for him but God had not healed him. We did the sensing exercise twice, with two separate partners. Paul did not know either of his partners. The first one felt a pain in his own left shoulder (the same one that hurts Paul) when he asked God for a word for Paul. So he asked Paul if he had shoulder pain and Paul said yes. The man prayed for him and he felt some relief, but not a total healing. Paul's second partner also got a word of knowledge about his shoulder, but in a visual way. He also prayed for Paul's shoulder. Before those two activations, Paul had begun to doubt that God wanted to heal him. But it really raised his faith because God showed both of his partners that He wants to heal him, even in the healing is not coming immediately.
There were also words about people's personal destiny. Some people ended up with their partner repeating back prayers that they had prayed secretly to God in their prayer closet. Imagine on thrilled they were when God showed them that He was hearing their prayers by having their partner prophetically repeat it back to them.
God lead me to do a little bit of prophetic ministry during the teaching, things that sort of demonstrated what I was teaching at that moment. I don't remember all of the words God had me give, but I do remember He imparted the gift of evangelism into one lady and He gave a strong spiritual warfare authority to another man, calling him a mighty warrior for God.
For the most part it was very easy to do the 8 hours of sessions because God was doing most of the work. I felt strengthened and sustained in Him.
We had a dinner break and after dinner, then I taught on prophetic flow. (That is where you open your mouth with no forethought of what you are going to say and the Holy Spirit fills it with His prophetic word. I had them break into partners, and then had each of them open their mouth and begin to speak for a full 4 minutes--and they all did it. Some of them just repeated a bible verse over and over again, but many of them actually moved in prophetic flow and gave God-words. The power and presence of God was so tangible in the room during the prophetic flow exercise that you could "cut it with a knife." Tim and I stood on the platform, and we were just blown away by what God was doing and by how strong His presence was in the room.
After that I did a bit more teaching and then had them break into partners and prayer for each other to move more strongly in the prophetic. I gave them 10 minutes (5 minutes for each partner) to pray, followed by a ten-minute break. God's anointing was so strong in the room that many of them kept praying for each other right through the break and were still praying when we asked people to take their seats so we could get started again.
I still had a lot of teaching to do, some of which I considered very important. But God spoke to me just before I asked the people to break into partners and pray for each other. He told me that the people were tired and could not absorb any more teaching. He told me to spend the remainder of the time in corporate ministry.
I had a mental flash of the people worshipping and crying out to God to fill them with His power and with a greater measure of prophetic anointing. In my mental picture, I saw the Holy Spirit falling on them as they cried out to Him. I got a strong sense that God did not want human ministry such as laying on of hands or personal prophesy or individual prayers. He wanted to minister sovereignly over the group. So I told them that after the break we were going to have a ministry time and I asked brother Lazlow if he would come and play the keyboard when we started the ministry time. He had been helping out with the keyboard during ministry times throughout the conference. There is a very strong anointing on his music.
Then I turned the people loose to pray for each other and have a break. Like I said, they could not seem to stop praying for each other because God's presence was so strong. It took about 5 minutes to transition them into worship and calling out to God. But once we made the transition, the worship went on for about 45 or 50 minutes and God showed up more strongly than anything we had seen so far in the conference.
For the first 20 minutes or so, I sort of prophetically directed the group. God would show me what He was doing, and I would tell them what He was doing and how to respond to it. God's presence in the room was incredible. God showed me angels placing impartations on people there. He would allow me to feel a sensation (tingling hand, light touch on the forehead, itching or warm ear, etc) and then He would tell me what He was doing for the ones feeling that sensation. Then I would tell them people. It went something like this, "Some of you feel tingling in your hands and that tingling is running all the way up your arms. If you are feeling that, then God is placing His anointing on you right now to ...."
The power in room seemed to increase each time God would let the people know what He was doing regarding the physical manifestation that they were experiencing. After about 20 minutes, God told me to be quiet and He would minister directly to the people for a while. The power level in the room went up even more as he began to sovereignly move on His people.
After a while, God said, "Call forth prophetic dance and prophetic song and prophetic art." So I did just what He commanded, keeping it very short. I noticed that about 8 ladies in the back and a few up front started to dance. I got absorbed in watching them dance--a lot of it looked the quality of professional ballet. It was incredible to watch. I watched it for about two minutes, then I silently told the Lord how beautiful it was. The Lord said to me, "Teresa, that is the prophetic dance you just called forth."
Right then, this contentious song began to rise up. At first it was two ladies in the front and they had professional quality singing voices. (Some others later told me that they heard angels singing just before these two ladies started their prophetic song.) The ladies did not appear to be singing words, they appeared to be singing sounds, like "Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh." I was kind of intrigued because I had never seen that before. A few seconds later several people from different parts of the room began to join in. I realized that was the prophetic song I had called forth.
While that was going one, God gave me the word "Household Salvation" and told e that He was going to release household salvation in the lives of those who had unsaved relatives. I knew that God was doing something different at that moment (the release of prophetic song and prophetic dance and prophetic art), so I held on to it until God finished and there was a lull. Then I had those who had unsaved unsaved relatives to raise their hands. I proclaimed God's release of household salvation over them and then I asked them to cry out to God for their unsaved relatives. The power level in the room went up yet again.
As that died down, the Holy Spirit began to direct brother Lazlow to play a certain melody very loudly. The prophetic anointing was on his music very strongly and God started giving people personal encounters with Him. Some had visions, some saw angels, some felt His presence very strongly, etc. I just sat back and observed, my heart full of worship. God moved over the room very strongly through the instrumental music. Then Brother Lazlow changed to a melody of a popular worship song and many of the people began to sing along with it.
After about 2 songs, it was time to end, as we only had the building until 10:00 PM. The Lord seemed to tell brother Lazlow and me that it was time to end at the same instant. He lowered the volume of the music and looked at me. I nodded that it was time. God had given me Is 40:30 to read to them and a brief word related to the verse. I explained that we had just spent the last 50 minutes waiting on the Lord, and that our place of prophetic empowerment and accuracy comes from this place of waiting on the Lord and being in intimacy with Him. Then I told them this is not the end, it is the beginning. It is the beginning of their ministering prophetically in their churches and work places and anywhere else that God asked them to bring a message.
Then the conference was over. People lingered and did not want to leave right away because God's presence was still so strong in the room.
There is so much more I could tell you about this, and about some of the testimonies that came back to me. But I have been typing this about 3:30 AM and now it is 7:00 AM and time to go eat breakfast.
God's presence has been on me strongly since the meeting last night and I have really been enjoying His nearness and from time to time I stop what I am doing to just get lost in worship. I wish I could live in this place of being in His tangible presence all of the time. He is so wonderful!
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